Events

  • SPSS I Introduction to SPSS

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

    Note: Topic order is subject to change. This workshop is designed to introduce participants to SPSS. It will cover the fundamentals of SPSS, within-case transformations, data management with multiple files, and basic statistics and graphics. Useful for any scholar engaged in quantitative research. Fundamentals This portion introduces SPSS, the menu and the help systems, and […]

    Regular Expressions II

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

    Regular expressions are perfectly suited for people who like puzzles. Regular expressions are a sequence of characters used to define a search pattern. They are commonly used to do “find” and “find and replace” string operations. They are also used to validate strings like phone numbers, passwords, etc. in data entry. Regular expression capabilities can […]

    Android Application Development: Why and How

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Mobile app development is one of the biggest new industries of the last decade. As of 2017, Google has stated that over 2 billion devices around the world use the Android operating system, alongside Apple’s 1 billion iOS mobile devices around the globe. The capabilities and adopted use of modern smartphones can provide an easy […]

    Stata 1: Introduction to Stata

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001A

    Note: Topics are subject to change. Topics: Basics – Interfacing with Stata, Do-files, getting help. Working with Data Sets – Importing, opening, and saving data files. Data Management – Getting familiar with your data, adding informative labels, basic checks for issues. Data Manipulation – Generating new variables, working with subsets of data, merging files, reshaping […]

    Graduate programs in computational science — INFO SESSIONS

    Students interested in computational science are invited to learn about graduate programs that will prepare them for success in computationally intensive fields. Pizza and pop will be provided. Two sessions are scheduled: Monday, Jan. 22, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (North Campus) Thursday, Jan. 25, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m., 2001 LSA […]

    Introductory GIS

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This workshop will cover introductory GIS concepts, tools, and techniques. We will use ArcGIS to learn basics of GIS by solving 2-3 specific problems. We will use the graphical user interface of ArcGIS and no programming experience is required for this workshop. The workshop will also cover the basics of projections and spatial data. The […]

    Introduction to MATLAB

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

    This workshop introduces participants to MATLAB. Topics include indexing and slicing of vectors and matrices, creation of script M-files and functions, control flow operators and basic 2D and 3D visualization. The workshop is targeted to participants with little to no knowledge of MATLAB and/or participants that would like to review basic MATLAB concepts.